In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.

It runs circles around VLC, and then some ...

The free VLC media player by VideoLAN has surpassed 7 billion downloads globally, achieving this remarkable feat just 18 ...

VLC, the world's best open-source media player (it plays like virtually every format), just reached a big milestone in its 17-year history. The free app's been updated to version 3.0 "Vetinari" and ...

VLC is easily one of our favorite media players (and yours too). While it can handle nearly every movie you throw at it, it can also do so much more. You don’t need to be a power user to understand ...

This week the folks behind the video player app VLC announced that they'd be bringing a major new version of the product to the public later this year. VLC 4.0 will be released in the year 2021 with a ...

The VLC player, a free open-source media player created by VideoLAN, is widely known for its flexibility: Almost any type of video file imaginable can be played on VLC. However, you may not be aware ...

The massive update for the "plays everything" media player also adds 360 video, HDR and took three years of volunteer work to complete. If there’s one video player to rule them all, it’s the VLC media ...

VideoLAN teased the technology at CES 2025 and shared some videos of it in action. Essentially, VLC will use AI to automatically generate subtitles for videos. The AI will also be able to translate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VLC, the worldwide answer to the question "do you want to use Windows Media Player to open this file?" just received its first ...

When you play streaming content over the Internet using VLC Media Player, VLC caches a small amount of content on the computer to ensure continued playback in the event of a connection interruption.